Class of 1893

The Secretary's heart was gladdened by the usual number of holiday greetings from members of the class, the one which traveled the longest distance coming from Sparhawk, at the Nast Home in Cincinnati. From the cover it was evident that Sparhawk had given his typewriter a new red and black ribbon for Christmas.

The longest and best letter came from Dr. Frank T. Woodbury of Wakefield, Mass., with whom the Secretary roomed during junior year at Hamp Howe's residence, next door to Sallie Prex's, and in a former gilded hell, equipped with a real bar, on the Little White Way.

Woodbury reported hearing from Bowers, the oldest living member of the class, 72 on January 6. February birthdays, by the way, include Sam Hunt, the third; Senator Calef, 10; E. S. Miller, 13; John Rowell, 20; Harry McLaren, 21; and John Child, 25.

Doctor Woodbury writes of his ancestral acres in Weare, which he still owns and uses principally as a bird cover; and of Dartmouth, with which he keeps in touch through undergraduate and young alumni. Of his native town he says: "They haveplayed a mean trick on me up there.They've made all the hills higher andsteeper and have moved everything fartheraway from the premises. Seetns to take metwice as long to get there, partly because Ihave to stop now and then to let my breathcatch up with me." The Doctor, who was one of the first to "boil over" about the famous murals, says he has ceased to do so. "They have been great publicity for thecollege," he says, "and when they haveceased to interest they can be paintedover."

Secretary, 104 North State St., Concord, N. H.